SOUL KITCHEN

Fiction, 99min Germany/Italy

Written by

Fatih Akin and Adam Bousdoukos

Directed by

Fatih Akin

Cast

Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Pheline Roggan, Anna Bederke,Lucas Gregorowicz, Dorka Gryllus, Demir Gökgöl, Birol Ünel

Original language

German

Genre

Comedy/Drama

SYNOPSIS

Young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his “Soul Kitchen” customers are boycotting the new gourmet chef, and he’s having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn’t mend Zinos’ broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias. Both decisions turn out disastrous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! When it seems he lost everything, he grabs for the very last chance to get his Soul Kitchen back.

Crew 

Director of Photography Rainer Klausmann (BVK) Editor Andrew Bird Sound  Kai Lüde (BVFT) Production Design Tamo Kunz Costume Design Katrin Aschendorf Make-Up Nica Faas, Maike Heinlein Sound Mixer Richard BorowskiLine Producer Christian Springer Production Manager Andrea Bockelmann Producer Ann-Kristin Homann Casting  Monique Akin Music Supervisor  Klaus Maeck, Pia Hoffmann Screenplay  Fatih Akin, Adam Bousdoukos

Production

Corazón International(Germany), PyramideProductions (Francie), NDR (Germany), Dorje Film (Italy)

Supported by

Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Deutscher Filmförderfonds Filmförderungsanstalt Nordmedia Fonds Der Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien

Italian Distributor

Bim Distribuzione

International Sales

The Match Factory

FESTIVALS

Venice International Film Festival 2009

Jury Prize

European Film Awards 2009

Best Film, People Choice Award

David di Donatello 2010

Nomination for Best European Film